BillySee58

For sure. Oh, and let's not forget when he told Sidway that our attendance drop was due in part to declining college basketball ttendance across the country. To which Sidway pointed out that attendance across the country was up and was one of the highest nation-wide attendance seasons in NCAA history. And we could go on.

Wow. Just realized, he really hasn't. Blamed Stephens on the search committee, talked about how Dodge was considered a good hire by everyone at the time and how he was financially strapped, talked about how Peterson was good everywhere else, and called Mccarney a good hire. He really thinks he's done a good job with those hirings, even though they're 150 games under .500.

Here's RV's body of work here with big 3 sport hires. WBB: - 25-67 Stephens (2008-2011) - 15-16 Aston (2011-2012) - 28-61 Peterson (2012-2015) - 11-19 Jalie Mitchell (2015-2016) 79-163 total MBB: - 190-146 Jones (2001-2011) - 12-20 Benford (2012-2013) - 16-16 Benford (2013-2014) - 14-17 Benford (2014-2015) - 12-20 Benford (2015-2016) 244-219 total Football: - 6-37 Dodge (2007-2010) - 22-32 Mccarney (2011-2015) - 3-9 Canales (2010, 2015)* 28-69 total *31-78 total including Canales Combined Total: 351-451 *354-460 including Canales 106 games under .500, 8 winning seasons, 3 .500 seasons, 21 losing seasons Obviously JJ carries the load here with more than half the wins and less than a third of the losses. Things have gotten really bad since he left, culminating with our first school year with both a 20-loss men's basketball season and 10-loss football season ever.

He hired Jones. I've explained this before, but for me this all started back in the 2014 football season against UAB. I wasn't a big fan of Mccarney at the time, but that game pushed me over the edge in realizing that Mccarney was bad and his recruiting was awful. Then I looked and saw all of our big 3 coaches were bad. So then I thought, hey, it's not just Mccarney. He's just another bad hire by RV. Then I thought back as far as I could off the top of my head at the time (I enrolled at UNT in fall 2011) and remembered as many hired in those sports as I could, and added up their records and saw they were almost 100 games under .500 at the time. Did not realize Jones was the previous hire, or when he was extended. As for now, that hire was made 15 years ago. Based on how things have gone, his hires over the last 10 years are a much better indicator for what we're looking at for RV making a hire present day.

With another season in the books, here's where RV's revenue hires of the past decade stand heading into the 2016-2017 school year. WBB: - 25-67 Stephens (2008-2011) - 15-16 Aston (2011-2012) - 28-61 Peterson (2012-2015) - 11-19 Jalie Mitchell (2015-2016) 79-163 total MBB: - 12-20 Benford (2012-2013) - 16-16 Benford (2013-2014) - 14-17 Benford (2014-2015) - 12-20 Benford (2015-2016) 54-73 total Football: - 6-37 Dodge (2007-2010) - 22-32 Mccarney (2011-2015) - 3-9 Canales (2010, 2015)* 28-69 total *31-78 total including Canales Combined Total: 161-305 *164-314 including Canales 150 games under .500, 1 winning season out of 21 for those coaches, and the first 10-loss football season and 20-loss basketball season in the same school year in university history. http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/sports-headlines/20150519-coaches-talk-attendance.ece

Mitchell going to make us a tough out once she has a full roster. Heck, they are right now.

I feel like even if Benford did assemble some really good team that could win 20 games despite his coaching, they'd get upset in the conference tourney. He's now 1-4 in conference tourney play with his only win coming in OT against a Rice team that was last play in the conference (2-14 back in 2013-2014).

What am I kidding you about? I just said facts. Of course Mitchell has done a better job. I didn't say anything otherwise. Benford technically advanced past the first round, and if the women lose today then they'll have gone out in the same round as the men. If the women can win today that'll be impressive.

They beat a 12-seed. Men are playing an 8 seed.

I could see us having a decent record next year. Cupcake OOC schedule akin to the one we had in 2013-2014, plus if he really does keep this team together then we can probably go something like 8-10 in conference and finish above .500. Then RV will come out I-told-you-so'ing like crazy.

http://ntdaily.com/pay-the-man-tony-benford-deserves-one-last-shot/ NT Daily article suggesting we keep Benford one more year. First of all, the article is titled "Pay The Man." Like pay the man his buyout? Is this dude under the impression that Benford won't get paid by us if we fire him? Also, "Rolling in the Deep" was not the number 1 song anymore when the 2011-2012 season started, and LeBron winning his first championship and the first Avengers movie had not happened yet when that season ended. How dare he disrespect my first season as a UNT basketball fan with historical innacuracies! But I do agree that he will be back next year.

Dude, I really don't think Benford is going anywhere.

That's why I think he could really fit well in that rover spot.

Losses: MLB Anthony Wallace, MLB Blake Bean, OLB AJ Smith, OLB Sed Ellis, LB Darrien McNair Top Returners: OLB Fred Scott, MLB Cortney Finney Additions: JUCO ILB William Johnson, JUCO OLB/Rover Eji Ejiya, HS ILB La'Darius Hamilton Other returning scholarship players: OLB Calvin Minor, OLB/Rover Brandon Garner, OLB Jalen Montgomery A common theme among doing these position ratings is not just seeing who had the best stats, but evaluating who actually played well, who let a lot of the big plays happen, and who did the least bad on a 1-11 team. The linebackers were exploited last year, both in the passing game and the running game. As many have pointed out in here, there's a reason our safeties both had over 100 tackles. The belief seems to be that we will run a 4-2-5, with word during Eji Ejiya's recruitment that he was recruited to play that 5th DB/LB hybrid. I'm counting that position with LBs for now. I think we see a lot of competition, with Fred Scott being our most established player, but not a player who would be penciled in by the new staff. With just 5 scholarship LBs we're going to be stretched thin for spring. We'll probably see a lot of Scott and Finney at the two in-box LB spots during spring, with Garner (who I'm a big fan of) likely at the rover spot and Minor potentially there as well. We're also really counting on Johnson to come in the fall and push Scott and Finney and for Ejiya to push whoever we have at the rover spot. I'm very intrigued by La'Darius Hamilton. He is a raw prospect from a small school who could probably use a redshirt year, but he absolutely has the size to play right away. I thought Jordan Murray was bound for a redshirt last year but he had the size and was able to play early. Altogether, this is a unit that needs as big an improvement as any. We also don't return much production, they're going to have to learn a new scheme, and we may have to rely on JUCOs who won't be here in the spring. I don't expect this to be a strength, but the key will be improvement from last year and making sure teams rush for a lot less than what they did last year. Hopefully the scheme helps in not allowing as much in the air by the LBs. Position Group Rank: 6th

You're right. My bad

School year. Overlapping seasons. Don't remember the years, but we only had two 10-loss seasons before Dodge

I wonder if we've ever had double digit losses in football and 20 losses in men's basketball in the same school year.

Brown didn't play against us in 2010. He was redshirting due to transfer rules. He did play against us two years later in Manhattan. Hope Orr gets a shot. That's all he's ever needed.

Littrell won't be using tight ends Apparently at least one

Just checked over the roster. Looks like DT Sir Calvin Wallace, LB Darrien McNair, and OL Dominick Walker are no longer listed on the official roster.

Traditionally it's been late summer, July or early August. Yeah, give them that last summer to go to camps and see all the dominoes falling as most P5 classes lock up their QB commits.

6' 190 lb receiver from Oak Ridge high school in Conroe, Texas. We have offered. Not much out on him yet. highlights: http://www.hudl.com/athlete/2083596/kyle-townsend http://247sports.com/Player/Kyle-Townsend-86494

It really depends on the school and what type of class, big or small, they're expecting. it's usually anywhere between 100 and 200. I did a post last year at the end of April on how many offers schools across CUSA had given out. By April 28th last year Old Dominion had given out 130 offers for the class of 2016, which led the conference. Rice and UTSA had given out just 5, and we had given out 35. Here's the post.

Relative strength is a great way to put it. Doing these rankings, offensive line and defensive back look like two of our stronger units. Whether or not they stack up favorably with our conference mates and can win us games remains to be seen. Especially coming off a 1-win season. Also very true about Mccarney. Fun fact about the high school offensive line signees during the Mccarney era; Micah Thompson was the only one to become a full-time starter AFTER his freshman year, as he started as a senior last year. We have to do a better job of developing these guys.

Yeah, Kelly is putting up impressive numbers. So is freshman Marcus Evans for Rice. I wonder if Evans will do what their center Obi did a few years ago and transfer to a big-time program after a big freshman year.